A small, handsome restaurant in a second-tier strip mall, Megumi is different enough from the standard Japanese restaurants to stand out. Although the range of the sushi menu is about average, the presentations are a bit better, and the size of the pieces is substantially larger. Also here uniquely is a yakimono grill, a style of cookery that could be best described as Japanese shish kebab. The yakimono has a separate bar from the one serving sushi, although most get it at the table.
Megumi (the word translates as "grace" from the Japanese) opened almost exactly a year after Hurricane Katrina, at a time when restaurants of all kinds were very busy on the North Shore. It made an immediate impression, but in more recent times the crowd has been thinner.
The restaurant is in an unpromising strip mall that has large spaces vacant. Ignore this. The dining room is sleek, handsome, beautifully lighted, and comfortably furnished. It's a good restaurant to visit if you're looking for quiet, or perhaps even an escape from the eyes of people you know on the North Shore.
Don't order everything you're thinking about eating at the beginning. Everything here is served in much larger quantities than in most other sushi places. I've walked out of here uncomfortably full more than once.
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